Bayelsa Coordinator of Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Mr Alagoa Morris, has defected from the Labour Party (LP) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Morris, an Environmental Rights Activist, made the announcement on Thursday in Yenagoa ahead of the Bayelsa Governorship Election slated for Nov. 11. He noted that Gov. Duoye Diri had done so many good things some ...

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has said he remains a member of the PDP despite being in the APC government of Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Wike said this on Wednesday as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today when he was asked if he was still a member of the opposition party. “Party is just a vehicle. ...

A former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has said the coup in Gabon is the direct consequence of stifling democracy. Military officers said they had seized power in the Central African nation of Gabon early on Wednesday, overturning the results of the Saturday election that returned the incumbent, President Ali Bongo Ondimba, to a third seven-year term in office. The ...

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike has said if the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, was a better candidate, Nigerians would have voted him at the February polls. Obi, a former Anambra Governor, came third in the election won by APC’s Tinubu. The LP candidate and his PDP counterpart, Atiku Abubakar are ...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State has expelled 84 of its members for alleged anti-party activities. The party made this known on Wednesday in a statement signed by its State chairman, Tajudeen Lawal. It stated that the decision was arrived at after the State Executive Committee constituted a Disciplinary Committee to investigate the allegations against some members. Leading ...

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has refuted the purported suspension of Rabiu Kwankwaso, the 2023 presidential candidate of the party. The party’s national auditor, Ladipo Johnson, stated this at a news conference on Wednesday at the NNPP national headquarters in Abuja. Johnson, a former spokesperson for the Kwankwaso Presidential Campaign Council, declared that ...

In a move to resolve the current impasse between the Executive and the Legislative arms of the Lagos State Government over rejection of 17 cabinet nominees by the latter, members of the Governance Advisory Council, GAC, on Wednesday, stormed Lagos House, Marina, in a closed-door meeting with Governor Bababjide Sanwo-Olu and Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), Mudashiru Obasa. ...

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has dared the leadership of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to suspend or discipline him. Wike stated this on Wednesday during his interview with Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. The immediate past governor of Rivers State and a member of the major opposition party, PDP, was sworn in ...

One of the founding fathers and chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Buba Galadima has described the suspension of the party’s national leader, Rabiu Kwankwaso as a “Nollywood and Hollywood joke”. Recalls that a faction of the party on Tuesday suspended Kwankwaso, alongside other members over alleged “anti-party activities in various meetings”. The group claimed that there was ...

The immediate past Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has said that unless members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) eschew over-ambition, selfishness and envy, the party may not be free from constant crisis bedeviling it. Aregbesola also said that the acrimony within the party in Osun State got aggravated after his successor, Gboyega Oyetola, and other leaders of the party ...